[mythtv-users] Thanks, and 2 more questions

Greg Mitchell greg at nodecam.com
Tue Apr 24 00:02:17 UTC 2007


Frank Mckinney wrote:

> 1 - I've read that MythTV prefers to be 'set and forget', as in build, 
> install, configure and don't touch it. At the moment what I'm planning 
> is to eventually use the MythTV box as a backend with an Xbox frontend 
> (so I can play games, etc.), but until I can get my hands on a used 
> Xbox, I might have to use the MythTV box as a combined 
> backend/frontend. Is it generally easier to simply re-install and 
> start from scratch in this case, and just use the first experience as 
> a 'getting my hands dirty' type of experience? *
You shouldn't need to make any changes to your combined backend/frontend 
system to add an Xbox frontend at a later date.  I mean, if you want to, 
go right ahead, but it's pretty much a waste of your time.

> 1a - at some point I'll want to add extra hard drive space, or if i 
> can afford it, do a motherboard swap and go to SATA drives, so the 
> same question applies: is it relatively easy to add/swap hard drives?.
>
Pretty easy with the SVN versions, but 0.20 doesn't support multiple 
recording directories just yet.  When 0.21 comes out, adding more drives 
should be as easy as setting up a new mount point as a recording 
directory.  That said, it isn't terribly difficult with 0.20 and LVM - 
just that if you don't have to LVM, it'll be much nicer.

Greg


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